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>>kotaKa+(OP)
If this is a thing then the solution they offer is incorrect. A big giant red screen: “warning the identity of this application developer has not been verified and this could be an application stealing your data, etc” would have worked.

What they want is to get rid of apps like YouTube Vanced that are making them lose money (and other Play Store apps)

>>rvnx+Ig1
It won't work because of too many false positives. People are already trained to ignore warnings, like how they blindly accept T&C without reading.

>>paradi+on1
If a giant red warning saying 'THIS APP MAY BE MALWARE' doesn't stop someone, then they've either made an informed choice to proceed or it's willful negligence. In other words, users aren't 'trained' to ignore warnings; they're simply being willfully negligent.

>>artisi+gy1
As someone who is usually careful I too have found myself clicking past warnings and error notifications in recent times, mainly because I want to do something and the software is actively preventing me from doing that. It isn't negligence, it is just wanting to get something done and not having the time or the nerves to carefully read through and think about messages, dialogs, and screens.

Back in the early days of the Internet there was the Joel Spolsky article on why users will always do anything to see the dancing bunnies.